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@mattblissett1966

Жыл бұрын

KZread has changed subscription settings to personalised. My subscription to you was set to all, but changed. Your videos are great.

@robinthrush9672

Жыл бұрын

Somehow we got the Punk Frogs, but when dhampirs came up we didn't get Vampire Hunter D, Blade, nor even Magiere (Saga of the Noble Dead). In the words of Evil Hercules, "Very DISAPPOINTEEEED!" Edit: Also, Raphtalia from Rising of the Shield Hero would show off the Verdan thing since she goes for beastkin child to adult when she hits a certain level.

@vernonhampton5863

Жыл бұрын

Verdan + sun soul monk +star druid = Piccolo

@AntonsVoice

Жыл бұрын

I kinda want to see you do a Collab with Dungeon Dad. Not sure how it would work.

@gdragonlord749

Жыл бұрын

Except that vampires cant cross running water and also treat it like acid

I have a kid in my group who wanted to play as a Grung after messing around on Hero Forge one day. He's low-key been the strongest member of the group playing a Swarmkeeper Ranger whose swarm resembles tadpoles, and he loves to make use of basically every racial feature he has, like jumping and climbing. I've been delighted at how much fun he's had with it and how distinctive a Grung can be.

@OnyxSpectre13

Жыл бұрын

Thats actually such an interesting concept ngl

@flamable2596

Жыл бұрын

All hail grung bou

@lordorion5776

Жыл бұрын

thats kinda awesome

@nicwaples6020

Жыл бұрын

I created a reborn minotaur character that is the party's resident necromancer, and it's hilarious how scary powerful he is.

@lordorion5776

Жыл бұрын

@@nicwaples6020 honestly that's pretty awesome

I love the idea of a paladin dhampir that smites through their fangs as they're never unarmed and can climb up walls to possibly get to ranged or flying enemies

@codybohyer1107

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately you can't smite with unarmed strikes or natural weapons, unless there is an errata that I am not aware of.

@bozieu

Жыл бұрын

@@codybohyer1107 It says in the description that the fangs are considered simple melee weapon. You should be able to smite with them. Also, you can cast magic weapon on them for some reason 🤔

@codybohyer1107

Жыл бұрын

@@bozieu in the description of what? Please cite sources.

@bozieu

Жыл бұрын

@@codybohyer1107 sorry, the description of the Dhampir's fangs. "Your fanged bite is a natural weapon, which counts as a simple melee weapon with which you are proficient." Since you can smite "when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack" and that the fangs are considered simple melee weapons, I don't see the poblem.

@codybohyer1107

Жыл бұрын

@@bozieu oh cool, so it's a racial ability specific to them that lets it count as a weapon. That's awesome. Thank you for enlightening me.

As a Reborn you only get the "movespeed" like the flying speed of your previous race. That means you can wear heavy armor and still fly.

@andresromero5409

Жыл бұрын

yeah, but common sense exist lol

@Nightmareblackop

Жыл бұрын

I would guess its up to rulings honestly. Because I would guess if u get conditional move speed it should remain conditional

@RealLifeIronMan

Жыл бұрын

RAW that may be true, but 9 in 10 DM's will reject that.

@prazerpedro5379

Жыл бұрын

@@RealLifeIronMan I'm the only one lol

@damienamarty

Жыл бұрын

@@RealLifeIronMan With a decent strength score i would allow it at my table

Love that Verdan are finally getting the spotlight. It was my first race when I started playing 5e and holds a special place in my heart. They're unapologetically weird and I love everything about them.

@habanerohombre2708

Жыл бұрын

I, too, have a Verdan - a bard, who paints and likes shoes and is definitely not a horny bard.

@Vawk20

Жыл бұрын

I don't think many people know acquisitions incorporated is a thing honestly. Never heard of verdan before

@isaacgraff8288

Жыл бұрын

@@Vawk20 never heard of them either.

@DarkmindedBBX

Жыл бұрын

Verdan was my first race aswell. For real i searched the web for like every race out there and now Anon (Midargh Sol'Anon) is one of my most beloved companions hehe Verdans are funny - especially if your dm always pulls the: "Oh you are a suprisingly big goblin, my friend..." And I took it to an Vrrdan bard cuz they travel and it justs suits them

Reminder about the Dhampir: the bite attack counts as a simple natural weapon, not an unarmed strike. Meaning, it can be a Monk weapon, and scale up its damage die with Monk levels, or the fun part: you can Smite with it. Also, I'm fairly certain it can become your Hex Weapon as a Hexblade Warlock. Enjoy!

@better8655

Жыл бұрын

Martial arts could scale it even if it were an unarmed strike, notably that makes it not become magical at 6. Paladin can smite unarmed, but not improved divine smite at 11, so slight boost there.

@danieljohnson9917

Жыл бұрын

@@better8655 Paladins cannot smite unarmed per a Sage Advice, unfortunately. It's a whole thing with the difference between melee weapon attacks and melee attacks with a weapon. The distinction is so rare but it's something that needs to be checked here and there.

@better8655

Жыл бұрын

@@danieljohnson9917 divine smite specifies "melee weapon attack". The sage advice actually goes on to talk about the following line about "in addition to the weapon's damage." being what stops it. Then further stating that their choice to tie it to weapons is purely thematic, and no balance issues arise from allowing unarmed smites.

@benbedford6605

Жыл бұрын

It'd also trigger with the war cleric 8th level ability giving you another 2d8 piercing damage to add to the healing or bonus to rolls

@DarkMark-cf1ec

8 ай бұрын

Because it counts as a weapon and not body parts you can also make a warlock that can store away his magical teeth with.. pact of the blade? If I remember correctly

I once made a Grung Genie Warlock for one reason and one reason only. I had the inside of his Genie's Vessel just be a big ol' terrarium, that was it. I just happened to have the idea and loved it so much I ran with it. Also I came up with a reborn character but haven't had a chance to play them as of yet. Simply put they're a bard and put the 'death' into death metal, the basic backstory idea was they woke up in a cemetry along with a couple others and started an undead band until a cleric saw them and jumped the gun with destroy undead, which only he survived, talked to and explained to the cleric (who then felt really bad about the whole misunderstanding). He is now on a journey to form a new band.

@aronnemcsik

Жыл бұрын

This sounds amazing

@chad8767

Жыл бұрын

Love both those concepts!

@annatarsoly941

Жыл бұрын

Love it!!!

I have to admit I felt " Dirty" playing a Kalastar Barbarian, and I loved it.

@mauriliogarcia9239

Жыл бұрын

*Laughs in Emerald dragonborn bear totem* i love it so much lmao.

@codybohyer1107

Жыл бұрын

I assume you mean a totem barbarian as there are tons of subclasses, my favorite of which is the ancestral one. So tanky you make others tank.

@octo448

Жыл бұрын

I played a Barbarian in a game with a Kalashtar Bard and I never once considered how busted it would be if I were one as well. I wish I had! (Though it was homebrew and our DM liked to... let's say "bend" a lot of rules about races. Like that they can't dream- he made it a plot linchpin that the Kalashtar Bard... dreams. -.- )

I like the idea of a Verdan Hexblade with their pact Longsword hitting 5th level and the next time they summon their pact weapon, it's a Greatsword.

@Shalakor

Жыл бұрын

Oooo, now that's a cool idea.

Grung - Frog People 0:20 Reborn - Reborn race as another race 02:33 Kalashtar - Human combined with Spirit of Realm of Dreams 06:34 Dhampir - Vampires the race 08:19 Verdan - Goblins that grow as you level up 10:25

@VeteranDecanus86

8 ай бұрын

You’re the hero we all needed.

I had a brief opportunity to play as a Kalashtar Cleric I had made and one of the first encounters we had was with a group of Kenku. The party was on a search and rescue mission, so after fighting the Kenku, we got one to surrender, and I had the pleasure of realizing that Mind Link - by the wording of the ability - would allow me to bypass the Kenku's inability to speak outside of mimicry to have a proper conversation through telepathy. I was quite proud of myself for that one.

Glad to see Verdan here. I've built a verdan Twilight Cleric and the advantage on wis saves was great, I was pretty much guaranteed to never suck a wisdom save and recover the group from their failures, as well as helping on my charisma saves. Resilient Int was the final nail on the structure so that I was the unbreakable mental wall on my group.

My first group I was banned from playing Grung because they didn't like my Kermit voice, I have never been more discriminated for success

@intergalactic92

Ай бұрын

Did you also lust after pigs and sing songs?

Finally I see some love for the Verdan race. I made a Verdan Barbarian that lived for centuries due to plot reasons and his appearance is that of a small, old, and frail goblin, but when he rages he gets taller, stronger, and noticeably younger (example: from 80 to 40).

You didn’t talk about it but I fell in love with shifter most recently. They used to only be able to shift once per short rest which was really situational, but now it’s tied to proficiency per long rest. One specific interaction is the Wildhunt shifter + Barbarian, while shifted no attack within 30 feet of you can benefit from advantage; so essentially if there aren’t ranged combatants you get reckless attack with no drawbacks 👍🏼

@matthewdykeman8149

Жыл бұрын

I've done a Wildhunt Barb before and the first time I recklessed and my DM tried to do the advantage attack against me, the "Well actually no" moment was great. 100% best race for Barbs.

@Shalakor

Жыл бұрын

It does take until turn 2 to set up, though, right? Since Shifting and Rage are both bonus actions? That's a bit of a tradeoff/drawback.

@JoeyTee420

Жыл бұрын

@@Shalakor it does unfortunately. However if your dm allows it sometimes you can shift right before combat if you can see it coming, lessening the downsides. But by turn 2 you feel pretty badass

@woutvanostaden1299

Жыл бұрын

Another great way for wild hunt is ranged martials or spellcasters combined with the athlete feat. Kite them and go prone at the end of your turn, if they can't catch up, they get disadvantage, if they can catch up they don't get advantage. For ranged martials I reccomend rangers with Zephyr strike (if you can somehow get it Ashardalons stride or Kinetic jaunt or for gishes like bladesingers, swords/valor bards, armorer/battle smith, eldritch knight or arcane trickster) or echo knight for a free disengage, while only spending 5ft to get back up.

Thank you so much for bringing the Verdan up in your video! I've never heard of this race before but after reading up on them I officially think they have my favorite lore for a race, now I really want to play one!

I once played a human barbarian of the beast, but as a vampire, draining bite, walking on walls, supernatural strenght. He presented himself as a bard and only used a longsword. His main weapons were his bit and coiling grasp tattoo which he used to grapple enemies at a distance and 'take a bite". He was by far my most unique barbarian given that he just looked like a pale white haired guy with black pants and a white shirt. His main focus was roleplay and intrigue which he exceeded at.

I remember making a Verdan at some point and my DM said no since he didn't want homebrew in his campaign.... So yeah the Verdan aren't that well known

@DarkmindedBBX

Жыл бұрын

Should have shown him the official rulebook. You are lucky if you play in english, cuz it hasn't been translated yet - at least not into german

Cant wait for you to talk about the plasmoids, it’s my favorite race.

@EgoTheDeranged

Жыл бұрын

He already did i think

Saw the first Verdan picture, thought "she's cute", saw the others and realized "That's Piccolo! They did Piccolo's species from Dragon Ball Z!" And the abilities seem to bear that out, too!

I have a dhampir druid and I love him :) we had a big fight where I went unconscious and our barbarian forced my fangs into his arm to allow me to heal back to consciousness. It was fuckin awesome!

Having played a Grung Monk, that poison damage is no joke. Carried me through several encounters!

Finally some Verdan appreciation

My first DnD campaign started around 1.5months ago and I've been playing as a Kalashtar Barbarian after remembering this video.

The Ancestral Legacy lineage stuff like replacing existing character traits and the movespeeds are only for when the template is applied to an existing character, it even states directly in the ancestral legacy portion "If you don't keep any of those elements or you choose this lineage at character creation, you gain proficiency in two skills of your choice." If you pick the Reborn at character creation, all you get is 2 free skill proficiencies, still pretty decent. Only way to be a flying Reborn is if you pick a flying race at creation and then later your DM allows you to become reborn

I've honestly never heard of the Verdan race before but I need to try them out

@lordzaboem

Жыл бұрын

I think that came from the Acquisitions Incorporated book.

I was very glad to see the Reborn and Dhampir when they were released, because I remember the good old days of abusing the hell out of templates in 3.5. I went heavy on the minmaxing and weirdness when I played one, making a Reborn Aarakocra Aberrant Sorcerer. Some fishermen dredged a drowned bird man out of the bay, who woke up to discover that most of his memories had been scooped out and replaced by a... presence from so deep in the Feywild that it was hard to tell apart from the Far Realm...

I use the 5th Edition Character Sheet App, and I'm assuming the Kalashtar was renamed as Dreamtouched in it. Lol sounds like a great character to build

@Kirk9019

Жыл бұрын

That's correct 👍 great app

I wanted to play a Grung, but the need to be submerged in water was too much to overcome in the campaign we were playing. Water wasn't very abundant.

@Lostangel1000

Жыл бұрын

Decanter of Endless Water and a barrel?

@venombeetle7473

Жыл бұрын

@@Lostangel1000 Probably a desert setting, where water is for the rich or smth.

@harmonyinclarity

Жыл бұрын

@@Lostangel1000 honestly, after I commented. I looked up whether or not a portable hole can carry water. My DM is going to be starting a new campaign soon, I think I'll ask if I can have a one. I know they're rare but would be cool. Like a portable pool to take my long/short rests in.

@Maninawig

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, a bit homebrew, but XGE grants you a free common magical item. I would argue that a wetsuit (a cloth keeping your skin moist in any environment) would be trinket to common level at best. And it makes sense that the grung would team up with water genasi for their adventurers to overcome such a limitation.

@PyroGobbo

Жыл бұрын

Cleric/warlock multiclass so you can cast create water and regain it on a short rest.

Grung pirates sound like a lot of fun. Either as something you play or as a crew of fun characters that your players can bump into on their adventure.

I don't play DnD but I'm fascinated by the lore. Love this channel just for the charisma and enthusiasm you bring to the topic. Great job buddy

I'm actually playing a Grunk Monk and it's a lot of fun, though we worked out with the DM that the poison only applies on grappled or spear (in my pc's case) - a fist is not enough surface. I solved the Water thing with a Mage Initiate Cleric for Shape Water. Although you missed *1 more downside to Grund - they don't get Common by default, only Grung* so you need to take a Background that give you a language option.

@Greywander87

Жыл бұрын

Shape Water isn't on the cleric list, and while it would be helpful, it requires you to already have some water. I assume you mean Create and Destroy Water. That's actually kind of smart. Magic Initiate only gives you one free casting per long rest, which matches the frequency you need to soak in water.

@owenthompson4071

Жыл бұрын

Please say they are a Drunken master eith personal hygiene issues so you can poison people with the Funk of the Drunk Grunk Monk

@KevinVideo

Жыл бұрын

@@Greywander87 I think he meant Druid.

@GreycatRademenes

Жыл бұрын

@@Greywander87 Sorry, meant to say Druid (forgot which one, I remembered it was the Wis based), I got Create and Destroy Water, Shape Water and Guidance with it.

@GreycatRademenes

Жыл бұрын

@@owenthompson4071 Sorry, Astral Self - he's a purple Frog with a Stand ^^

So now I need to try and slip a Reborn Man-Bat (reflavored Owling) into my next game. SO cool!

@gabrielsalesmartins

Жыл бұрын

Just remeber to check with your DM, since RAW you can't create an owlin-dhampir straight on the character sheet, check out the Ancestral Legacy part of the lineage

@Leftists_are_Losers

Жыл бұрын

Reborn Aarakocra… flavored as a humanoid Pelican … with the Sailor background. Name ? Popeye, obviously!

A reborn flying tiefling sound super cool. A tiefling that had wings stitched on it and brought back to life, his purpose is to figure out how he even died and why he was specifically brought back to life.

Editing is improving with every video

@johannesstephanusroos4969

Жыл бұрын

Too bad about the spelling...

@JennyvdK

Жыл бұрын

@@johannesstephanusroos4969 boohoo

Always appreciate your hard work, Shorts. Helps me to figure out what resource books to look at. 📚✌️

Awesome video keep up the great work! Verdan looks really cool think I'll try that out in the next campaign I'm in!

I… did not know about 3 of these… looks like I’m going to be spending the next 24 hours straight diving into D&D races again 😅

If Spelljammer gave us anything it's gotta be the Autognome. Very awesome race.

In a game I ran, 1 of my players played a Grung Druid who I allowed to ride on the shoulders of the Warforged Fighter since they have resistance to poison, they also had a blowgun that they covered the darts with there own poison

The Kalashtar sounds amazing, thats my favorite out of the 5. Second place is Grung. If i ever get to play D&D in my life, i will be a Kalashtar!

the grung suits the variant feature ranger because of the tireless feature at level 10 negating the exhaustion

Verdan are awesome! Thanks for covering them.

I currently play a Reborn Bloodhunter Artificer multiclass. It's amazing.

My first d&d character was a Dhampyr. The campaign fizzled out after the fourth session, but I had fun playing a half-vampire monk while it lasted. :)

I have a Grung who was once a human investigator before an evil wizard cursed him to life as Grung. He's like a Sherlock/Noir detective and I love that character so much, LOL.

All the Van Richten lineages are awesome. Dhampir barbarian would be nutty since you only really need is str, con, dex. Now just picture a hungry raging person charging up a wall to slash at you.

One of the best ads I've seen in awhile, great job 😅

Hell yeah!! Thanks for covering the Verdan.

This video actually helped me finish up a character concept I've been working on. I'm building a Frankenstein-ish Monk, and just could not figure out how to do the race option as I had no idea that Reborn was a thing.

This helped me so much dude thank you so much

I was about to comment that being a Grung is pretty awesome, I used my secretion of poison to make poison weapons such as sack of poison, poison smoke when burning it (teas a stretch), antidotes, and poison tipped weapons such as spears, javelins, daggers, arrows, etc. Loved playing it and will definitely play more similar characters.

Fun trick with damphir: If you take the spell alter self (and your DM approves this) You can buff your bite attack to 1d6. in addition, if you can add additional damage to the attack (like Giants Might on Rune Carver for example, it could stack with the bite damage. So potentially, you could have a damphir with a bonus 2d6 + Con damage, healing or buffing yourself. (I do this maybe too often at my table)

Gotta love my minotaur melee characters since if you take sentinel, you can action attack, bonus action hammering horns to shove your enemy 10 ft away, triggering sentinel for another attack and setting their movement speed to 0 (Also, love your content!)

@lightbearerslamp5870

Жыл бұрын

If I recall correctly, forced movement does not trigger opportunity attacks.

@TiberiusAudley

Жыл бұрын

Shoves/forced movements (other than "force them to use their movement speed to move" a la Dissonant Whispers/Fear) do not provoke Attacks of Opportunity

idk why but your ads are always funny af. I watched like 3 or 4 videos today and you make some funny ads for your sponsors

I had an idea for a Grung Way of the Shadows monk named Gren. In order to counter his need to submerge himself, he would carry a gord on his back full of water that he could sleep or meditate in. That way he got his much needed hydration and also fun role play tidbits. Like having party members knock on the gord to wake him up. lol

So I know he didn't mean for that Yuan-Ti Abomination to be taken literally, but I just thought it was funny that the monster he used for the Grung poison discussion is immune to poison

Played a monk grunge once with the poisoner feat. Nothing like high jumping in an allyway, sticking to the wall and jump attacking someone for 1d6 + 2d4 (shortsword+grunge poison) and/or damage, 2d8 (poisoner feat poison, you have a free supply of poisonin your skin) and then punching them for the chance to give them the poisoned condition

A neat thing with dhampir monks is that their bite can be used as a monk weapon. Technically, you still have to use Con for the attacks since the martial arts feature allows Dex instead of Strength. If you’re lucky, maybe your DM would let you use Dex. The real benefit, however, is that your bite will increase with your martial arts die. So, either more healing or higher bonus potential as you grow in levels. Plus, who doesn’t want to stunning strike after a chomp?

@banjoskeleton8399

Жыл бұрын

Better yet, kensei monks can use some (but not all) of their features to make the bite even better. Add a martial arts die to the bite, make it a magical +3, and you've got a pretty nice attack which then gives pretty big healing/bonus to a check.

I want to be a Gring whose skin excretes a hallucinogenic. Straight poison is cool, but make the enemy tripping balls? Even better.

I currently play a Verdan and I love the flavour they get and the 5level size boost was so fun to integrate in our story

i played Kalashtar moon druid and being able to communicate while in wild shape is very nice

I'm playing as an Owlin Reborn in a game. It's kind of bonkers. Owlin Dhampir are also very good, since the fly speed matches the walking speed. Plus, Spider Climb+Flight offers unparalleled mobility.

One combination I love to use is the goliath spellcaster. Sorcerers are notorious for being squishy, not so much with a goliath. Especially if you use a goliath hexblade warlock, pact of the blade. Can be a very nice combination.

Thanks for featuring Verdan. I hadn't ever heard of them, but them like a good choice for a mounted build, since they can grow with their mounts., and maybe talk to them as well. Plus they are Gobo, and I heart Gobo!

The underrated races just keep coming

It might be a little less mechanically cheesy, but my favorite subclass for a kalashtar barbarian has to be Ancestral Guardian. I just love the character concept of being tied to this spirit that manifests in your body and beats up your enemies for you when you rage. (Also an incredible hook for a warlock patron, especially since I can think of more than one subclass you could plausibly reskin.)

I'm currently using Reborn to play a civil war era soldier who has been isekai'd by the Raven Queen to serve as one of her elite assassins in a fantasy campaign. (fighter/warlock/sorc)

4:43 reborns are awesome even without flight. Knowledge from a past life has made my grave cleric a meme, between that, Guidance and inspiration from the group's bard my cleric can turn a 13 in a 23 in a skill check. I'm using it for knowledge checks, which is cool since it gives the master the right to infodump the lore of his world.

My current character for the tomb of annihilation is a grung divination wizard named tiddalick. A lot of fun to play but definately a challenge.

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

That ad was top level. Got a solid belly laugh from me!

Kalashtar are seriously frightening... just think of how many potential children some of us might have out there because of the dreams we've all had, and you know damn well you weren't using any protection in those dreams.

In one of my campaigns, my character was this huge, super buff Tiefling paladin, and one of my friends was playing a Grong monk. I had a big barrel full of water on my back that I carried around so my friend could hop into it whenever he needed. It also made for some pretty good surprise attacks

Keep up the great content.

Ooh my DM actually let me play a Kalashtar who was apart of a cult that forcibly replaced the spirit she originally had with fragments of their gods! It was super super fun and I loved playing it out. The telepathy mind link they have was also really fun to play with.

LOVE THE AD!

Great video man! Idk if its ur thing, but a video on the uncommon dragon color breeds would be super dope!

This is my favourite DnD races video ever, mostly cos all the races I've played are in this lmao. My first character was a Verdan, the second, a Reborn and the newest, a Dhampir

I once played a Grung Druid. My brother, who was DMing at the time, was a bit iffy on the idea because he couldn't find any official source for them. But he allowed it. Basically he ran a challenge tower where each floor was randomly generated, with a different set of enemies for each of them. Well we got to a vampire, and I had this bright idea where my brother's friend threw a bag of bone meal, and use a fire spell (I forgot which) on it. Suffice to say Dale's Pseudo Fireball is now banned from our table.

@chastaylor7372

Жыл бұрын

Not sure why he banned it. That's an awesome use of smarts.

@cooltrainervaultboy-39

Жыл бұрын

@@chastaylor7372 it resulted in an almost TPK.

@chastaylor7372

Жыл бұрын

@@cooltrainervaultboy-39 oh snap, he did it in an enclosed space? Haha, wow, that reminds me of a meme where the wizard cast fireball at an object that amplified magic 100x it's normal power. Definitely earned the ire of the table, lol.

Hands down my favourite character I've ever played was Frunk, the funky, krunk fighting monk Grung. That used canoe salesman led to some of the most fun I've ever had, poisoned punches for everyone!

One of my favorite grung builds I call Death Hug. Besically, have a really high strength score, then get a breastplate (or any other sleeveless piece of armor), then attach spikes to the chest. then, before each fight, coat each spike with you poison. then, when in a battle, bear hug an enemy. when you do so, they take the poison damage from the spikes, and since they are in contact with your arms, they get poisoned, and since they are poisoned, that makes them have disadvantage on the check to escape the grapple. Then, your allies can easily come over and attack the enemy, who cant run away because they are being grappled.

Love the callout to the Verdan. I've been playing as Toit the Verdan light cleric for years and she's one of my favorite characters.

I never hert of Grung or Dhampir befor, so Nice. Tanks for info.😁😁

You just made my love for frogs already break its max capacity.

I remember that for a campaign, I had made a Grung Ranger and it was one of the coolest things ever. Best part though? I had made them homebrew along with my DM, before the Grung had an official race stat block in 5e, so the poison coating had instead a weaker version of that Grung species’ poison was. I had chosen the gold I believe, because I thought it was cool, and not even realizing it had charming poison.

Congrats on getting some merch. I'm definitely in the camp that we have too many animal based races, but like Ted (Nerd Immersion), I'm also wanting to see a proper dog/canine race.

@johannesstephanusroos4969

Жыл бұрын

Shifter doesn't count?

I made a Khalashtar Grave cleric on a curse of Strahd campaign, it was so much fun the whole way

I’ve played a (slightly home brewed) grung and I wanna say playing one of these funky guys is awesome and I wish to see a frog army campaign come into existence someday

Verdan are fun to play. Especially if your party doesn't know about the lvl 5 mutation.

I played a Verdan in my last campaign. It was so much fun!!

3:22 I went þo check and the first trait for any lineage says: Ancestral Legacy. If you replace a race with this lineage, you can keep the following elements of that race: any skill proficiencies you gained from it and any climbing, flying, or swimming speed you gained from it. If you don't keep any of those elements or you choose this lineage at character creation, you gain proficiency in two skills of your choice. Important part: If you choose this lineage at character creation, you gain proficency in two skill So no, you can not start the game as flying reborn

I think people forget about the Verdan due to it being only in the Acquisitions Inc. book. I'm also shocked you didn't bring up the Hexblood...or did you do that one already? I can't remember. Some of these races are also dependent on your DM. I played Shifters and Kalashtar since 3rd edition and I really love both those races. However, Hexblood really took a spot recently.

I once made a Half-Sea Elf Dhampir that was a fisherman that got attacked by a leech that slithered up his arm and bit his heart before burrowing into him, turning him into a leech man that became more and more alien and leech like as they leveled up. The leech made him hungry for blood of others, a hunger he tries to resist as the leech slowly takes over his body, mind, and soul

I love the Grung. I wrote a Grung Monk/Druid Circle of land (swamp obviously). He's awesome.

Dhampir fangs count as monk weapons, so they actually are really good for monk as they use your martial arts die for damage.

I've been running a Dhampir Bloodhunter as my favorite race/class combo since I started playing DnD. The bloodhunter is amazing with it because the health you lose can be mitigated by Vampiric Bite. Order of the Lycan or Ghostslayer is amazing with it.

@jayredharpstudios9672

7 ай бұрын

What are Bloodhunters? I'm relatively new to DnD and I don't watch Critical Role or any DnD campaigns

@Wittehh

7 ай бұрын

@@jayredharpstudios9672 They are an interesting class created by Matt Mercer who is a well renowned creator of rules which a lot of people consider to be true rules. Anyway, bloodhunters are a class that trades health in order to increase attack damage. They're pretty much purely stat checkers which is always nice. I was a lvl 3 with 22 AC and as Dhmapir you can heal yourself through biting as your attack or at higher levels use bonus action for it. Different lvl 3 branches you can take different bonuses, even turning into a Lycan who has even higher stats.

@jayredharpstudios9672

7 ай бұрын

@@Wittehh ah, I see I never watched any with Matt Mercer in it so I guess I don't understand the high pedestal that people put him and now I get the whole thing with Bloodhunters

I made a Grung Lore Bard/Spore Druid for this one shot that was a dungeon crawler, Using his sticky hands, jump distance/height and invisibility he was able traverse the dungeon pretty freely, then if I was ever pressed in battle I could combine the claw attack druids have with my poison skin for a nasty combo, then I was immune to poison, and had the Absorb element reaction spell from druid as well. It was just a nasty build and I definitely plan on making another Grung in the future.

I have a grung Noble I never got to use, made it for a dual class game. Made him Ranger/Fighter. He rode a giant centipede, had the retainers, and had a really dumb fun backstory.

I played a Verdan Bardlock in my last campaign, I had a lot of fun roleplaying the growth spurt over a few sessions and had him sleep a lot more than normal while it was happening. I also had him wearing clothes like skirts and loose shirts with rolled up sleeves until he'd finished growing.